NADINE

According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), over a million persons have arrived in Europe since January 2015 with many of them fleeing conflict zones in Syria and Iraq. Over the past two years, the European Union has received people fleeing conflict zones outside Europe on a scale unprecedented for Europe since World War II. The share of lowskilled individuals is greater than the European average. A considerably higher proportion of refugees have only a low level of education (up to lower secondary school level) compared with the native born (40% versus 23%). Their integration into host societies pose difficulties for many reasons and also due to the scale of the phenomenon. Several obstacles have been reported to block job-seeking migrants’ labour market integration, such as the lack of language skills and professional qualifications, incomplete information, regulations, and high screening costs as well as the lack of official (recognised) certification of their skills and qualifications. This increases employers’ uncertainty regarding the abilities of job applicants and might make them reluctant to offer job contracts.

NADINE project aim is to develop a novel way of integrating migrants and refugees through ICT-enabled solutions that will automatically adapt to the specificities of each person. The consortium agrees that one of the main enablers of migrants’ inclusion, in the host societies, is their ability to work. NADINE project, taking into account this important factor, will create an adaptable platform able to: 1) Provide functionalities for skill assessment (both hard and soft), 2) dynamically create tailored suited training programs to adapt existing skills into host societies needed skills (skills shifting), 3) provide a digital companion that will suggest and assist the end-users through administrative tasks and 4) create a data lake available to public administration bodies for better organization.

Consortium

SCRIPT & GO (S&G) – France
INTRASOFT INTERNATIONAL SA (INTRA) – Luxembourg
ASPIRE IGEN GROUP LIMITED (ASPIRE IGEN) – United Kingdom
VVA BRUSSELS (VVA) – Belgium
ETAIREIA PROIGMENON EFARMOGON SISTIMATON DIOIKISIS-MONOPROSOPI ETAREIA PERIOPISMENIS EYTHINIS (ΙSON) – Greece
CENTRO STUDI PLURIVERSUM SRL (PLURIVERSUM) – Italy
JCP-CONNECT (JCP-C) – France
ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXIS (CERTH) – Greece
UNIVERSITE DE RENNES I (UR1) – France
ONTISI ASTIKI MI KERDOSKOPIKI ETERIA (ODYSSEA) – Greece
CARITAS HELLAS (Caritas Hellas) – Greece
FUNDACION CIBERVOLUNTARIOS (CIBER) – Spain
LEARN & GO (L&G) – France